Stanley Bloom

What You Should Know About Sweden (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Very much of what this book contains you are not likely to find in any travel guide. Did you know, for instance, that Sweden held Olympic Games as early as 1834, sixty-two years before the first Olympics of the modern era? That peaceful Sweden has been a colonial power ruling over territories far from Europe? That the man who gave his name to the hundred-degree thermometer was a Swedish astronomer?

Do you know how Sweden acted and reacted in the two world wars? Who the "Super Swedes" were? Or the Scots who came to fight, or make their fortune in Sweden and left an indelible mark on the country? Do you know what a genuine smörgåsbord consists of, how it should be eaten, what the word really means and why it was given a seemingly incongruous name? Do you know how IKEA was formed, by whom and why he remains such a controversial figure? That Swedish inventions range from dynamite to Minecraft and from the modern adjustable spanner/wrench to Spotify? There are answers to these and many more questions.

However, there is also a great deal of information for anyone visiting, or thinking about visiting, the country, as well as showing where to obtain the latest information about places, accommodation, restaurants, events etc. at the click of a mouse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanley Bloom
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005198756
• Artikelnr.: 70646758

Autorenporträt

Stanley Bloom was born in London, but has lived in Sweden for many years. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), he was formerly on the staff of Radio Sweden and has long experience of international and educational broadcasting. He is the author of Blue Guide, Sweden (London and New York) and Binny and Belloe, a fantasy tale intended for young and old, while his latest book, The Sorcerer Of Stockholm has just been published on this site. He has also edited and/or translated many works, taught English at most levels, lectured on a range of subjects, run an intensive course for company employees needing to write documents in English, and travels a great deal, mainly to the UK, California and New Zealand, though it would take a lot to make him leave Sweden in the summer, where his favourite place to be is in the Stockholm archipelago. A keen photographer since his schooldays, when he started processing his own black-and-white pictures, at one time he also played the fiddle in a folk group.

The print version of The Sorcerer Of Stockholm, is available from www.feedaread.com, as well as Amazon and other online retail sites. Or it can be ordered from any bookshop (ISBN 978-91-980758-0-9). Binny And Belloe is available as an ebook at ww.amazon.com/Binny-And-Belloe-Stanley-Bloom-ebook/dp/B00AW0O4D2 as are two books Stanley has edited by his late brother David: Indian Diary, a vivid and at times hilarious account of an odyssey to India in 1973, www.amazon.com/Indian-Diary-David-Bloom-ebook/dp/B00C3OH5XG and a series of reflections about his uncle, Jack Solomons, www.amazon.com/Jolly-Jack-Solomons-David-Bloom-ebook/dp/B00FDPAOTY giving a unique insight into the background, life and achievements of the man who became Britain's and Europe's leading boxing promoter in the decades after the Second World War.